Unit 3 vocabulary

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  1. 4. The Preamble to the United States Constitution, beginning with the words We the People, is a brief introductory statement of the Constitution's fundamental purposes and guiding principles.
  2. 6. Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades.
  3. 9. The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787.
  4. 10. Alexander Hamilton was a Nevisian-born American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first United States secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795. Born out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis, Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by a prosperous merchant.
  5. 11. Article Seven of the United States Constitution sets the number of state ratifications necessary for the Constitution to take effect and prescribes the method through which the states may ratify it.
  6. 12. the federal principle or system of government.
  7. 13. a formal declaration of the legal and civil rights of the citizens of any state, country, federation, etc.
  8. 15. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
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  1. 1. a late-18th-century political movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution.
  2. 2. the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
  3. 3. James Madison Jr. was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father. He served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
  4. 5. A constitutional amendment is a modification of the constitution of a polity, organization or other type of entity.
  5. 7. John Jay was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, abolitionist, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served as the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States.
  6. 8. a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788.
  7. 14. a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.